--- title: "'I don't keer w'at you do wid me, Brer Fox,' sezee, 'so you don't f… — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics description: "'I don't keer w'at you do wid me, Brer Fox,' sezee, 'so you don't fling me in dat brier-patch. Who acts: Bimeby, you. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/7/20/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/) / [IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For M…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/7/) / 20 # Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox, sentence 20 "'I don't keer w'at you do wid me, Brer Fox,' sezee, 'so you don't fling me in dat brier-patch. **Who acts:** Bimeby, you · **What happens:** not keer, wid, not fling · **To what, where:** w'at, Bimeby, dat brier patch This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bimeby, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2306:7:20 # text = "'I don't keer w'at you do wid me, Brer Fox,' sezee, 'so you don't fling me in dat brier-patch. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 5 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 keer keer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 w'at w'at NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 wid wid VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl:relcl _ _ 11 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 Brer Brer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ _ 17 sezee sezee NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 19 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 23 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 fling fling VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 25 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 dat dat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 28 brier brier NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 patch patch NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **keer** *in a quote* | present · do-support | Bimeby | w'at | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **wid** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | Bimeby | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **fling** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | Bimeby | | dat brier patch | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent i=Theme in patch=Destination | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/7/19/) - next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/7/21/) - ↑ back to [IV. How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Mr. Fox](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2306/7/)